WAYGATE TECHNOLOGIES
wing of an airplane to search for tiny cracks . WT ' s core industries include aviation and space exploration , automotive , electronics and energy ; and additionally , Anbarasu says , they are working on energy transition technologies like the EV battery business and hydrogen production .
Formerly named GE Inspection Technologies , the heritage of Waygate Technologies goes back over 125 years . Over the years GE became a specialist in designing and producing devices and instruments for monitoring and inspection , and several strategic acquisitions enabled the company to grow . It became part of the multinational Baker Hughes in 2017 , merging its oil and gas business with the firm .
In 2020 the company rebranded and changed its name to Waygate Technologies , after GE ’ s divestment of its majority ownership in Baker Hughes in 2019 . But despite the change Anbarasu says they retain the same company identity , purpose , and people . Additionally , Waygate Technologies won the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for the Global Industrial Computed Tomography Solutions Market Leadership Award two years in a row , in 2019 and 2020 . Anbarasu says that the breadth of what they offer has put them in a unique position , " to deliver market winning cross-modality insights to our customers . The world is moving away from data at single units of time , space , and modality ."
Their X-ray and CT capabilities give customers the potential to inspect assets ranging from tiny powder particles at resolutions of a nanometre , to parts that are the size of a small car . One example is the high energy CT system - the first of its size in the world - designed to detect sub-millimetre size defects in parts that are several metres in diameter . " With our Phoenix Powerscan HE , we recently commissioned one of the world ’ s largest high energy CT cells in the world , a system that can inspect extremely complex additively manufactured parts with very high accuracy ."
WT ' s ultrasound capabilities are similarly versatile , with devices ranging from tiny thickness gauges that can fit into the palm of a hand , to machines that can test bars and rails over 10 metres long .
More recently the company has developed advanced digital capabilities , accelerated by the pandemic . Their flagship digital offering is InspectionWorks , which Anbarasu says is " a holistic data-driven approach for industrial inspection solutions and NDT . It involves three steps : Acquiring data , Analysing data , and Acting on insights to drive innovation ."
92 October 2021